Horazio Lanceta

Horazio Lanceta (1608-) was the Spanish governor of Santa Marta in Colombia during the late 17th century.

Biography
Horazio Lanceta was born in San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain in 1608, and he served in the Spanish Navy before becoming Governor of Santa Maria in Colombia. In 1662, Lanceta gave an audience to pirate Jack Summer, and he warned him that his actions against Spanish ships would not go unpunished. Summer hastily left the room after Lanceta's plain daughter Esmeralda Lanceta invited him to a dance, as Summer disliked the Spanish, and further disliked dancing with a Spanish governor's plain daughter.